School of Living SkillShare
I want to share a post that I worked on for the School of Living website. The post is about growing turmeric and ginger and is our first...
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Mar 10, 20171 min read
Bee Bread
I’m sitting in front of the woodstove and the snow is falling. So goes spring! Yesterday, was windy but warm and sunny and the honeybees...
Jan 27, 20171 min read
Chickens Seen
A scene that is both aesthetically theatrical and socially mundane…as it relates to a flock of chickens, of course. You can enlarge each...
Jan 9, 20172 min read
Spring?
That looks different. Let’s go check it out. J brought his infrared thermal imager to the scene and, as you would expect, there is a...
Jan 3, 20173 min read
So, what’s with the chickens?
This morning. Barn door is open. 9 hens, 1 roo meander in. J goes in barn to work. Dog (Ginkgo) follows. Freaky hen flies in front of...
Oct 24, 20161 min read
Honey for Sale!
We’ve had a beautiful busy season and the bees have provided us with a bountiful supply of honey. Sweet! Our good friends, Jim and Sally,...
Jul 12, 20161 min read
Wings of lace
I was very pleased to see this green lacewing on the coneflowers while I was photographing honey bees. Lacewings are a beneficial insect...
Mar 3, 20161 min read
Bagworm
Just a quick note on a new find. In the periphery of my attention, they looked like dead blossoms. But, wait…that makes no sense. Big...
Feb 18, 20162 min read
Stella Too!
I started to study permaculture when I lived in Elkins Park, an inner suburb of Philadelphia. Permaculture was our gateway to gardens and...
Feb 14, 20162 min read
Get ready…Get set…Start seeds!
Yes! This IS the beginning of our seed starting season! What a great activity to get into on a frigid near single digit day. With a...
Feb 4, 20162 min read
Orchard Update
We’ve had around 2′ of snow and, then, warmer weather. As the thaw continued, we had about 1.25″ of rain. Water is flowing. The swales in...
Jan 25, 20162 min read
Coop de Snow
The thing I like best about weather events such as Saturday’s snowstorm is that neighbors tend to come out to the street to share a...
Jan 12, 20162 min read
The Honey Hedge
We thought that we’d like to have a visual screen between our farm and a neighboring property. My dog, Ginkgo, watches, diligently, over...
Jan 10, 20161 min read
Chester County Rainbow
January 10, 2016 just before 5:00 p.m. It got up to 60 degrees F. today, some rain with strong wind. It will drop to ’round 24 degrees F....
Jan 10, 20163 min read
Chickens in the house (literally)!
NICE START TO A BLOG POST, HUH? I think it began with beetles in the orchard. This past summer, the new trees and shrubs that I planted...
Aug 20, 20152 min read
Dear CCBA,
A couple of days ago, I looked toward the bee yard. The honey bees were blasting to and from their hives…just as they should have...
May 27, 20151 min read
Marshmallows!?
Take a gander at all the fluffy marshmallows hanging in our tree. Have you ever seen such a healthy crop of marshmallows? No, of course...
Apr 27, 20151 min read
Last Frost Date 2015
I believe our last frost date is April 24 pm- April 25 am, 2015 (wishful thinking?). I hope I won’t need to update this brief post with a...
Mar 25, 20154 min read
10 Jujubes
I first saw and tasted jujube while walking the orchards of Edible Landscaping in Virginia. It was in the fall and the fruits were sweet,...
Feb 10, 20151 min read
Goodbye to StellaLou…
This post is in memory of a stellar chicken and our farm’s namesake, StellaLou. It is, also, to celebrate a magnificent creature…that is,...
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